Author: WHITE (James):
Title: A Treatise on Veterinary Medicine. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Containing A Compendium of the Veterinary Art. Or, An Accurate Description of the Disease of the Horse, and their Mode of Treatment; the Anatomy and Physiology of the Foot; and the Principles and Practice of Shooting. Illustrated by Plates: With Observations on Stable Management, Feeding, Exercise, and Condition.... The Ninth Edition, considerably Enlarged. Volume II: A Treatise of Veterinary Medicine, in two vols. By James White of Exeter.... Vol. II. Containing the Materia Medica, and Pharmacopoeia. A New Edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson..., `1808.
Description: London: Printed for J. Johnson...; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme..., 1809. 2 volumes. 12mo, 190 x 108, pp. Volume 1: [viii], 409 [410 blank,, 411 - 419 index, 420 adverts], including half-title, engraved coloured frontispiece, 12 engraved plates at end of text (3 partially coloured; Volume 2: 12mo, pp. [iii] iv - vii [viii blank], 266, uncut, neatly rebound in boards; lower margin of title-page slightly defective, clean tear in T3 of volume from fore-edge to inner margin, but a very good set. Information about James White is not exactly voluminous. He died in 1825 and was Veterinary Surgeon to His Majesty's First, or Royal Dragoons. This ninth edition of the first volume is uncommon, with OCLC locating copies in BL and National Library of Wales in the UK, Guelph in Canada, and Massey University in New Zealand.

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